The Auburn baseball team will wrap up its fall practices this week with the Orange-Blue World Series beginning on Tuesday afternoon. The week will close with the Fourth Annual Celebrity Home Run Derby on Friday night at 6pm CT to raise money for the Lee County Boys and Girls Club.
The Auburn football game on Nov. 10 at Georgia in Athens, Ga., will be televised by CBS Sports, the Southeastern Conference announced Monday. Kickoff is slated for 2:30 p.m. CT.
Auburn sophomore defensive end Antonio Coleman has been named the Southeastern Conference’s Defensive Lineman of the Week, the conference office announced Monday. Coleman was honored following Auburn’s 17-3 victory over Ole Miss Saturday.
Auburn celebrates its Homecoming Saturday by taking a break from the Southeastern Conference schedule to host its last nonconference game of the season against Tennessee Tech. Auburn will be looking for its fourth straight home victory, while the Golden Eagles, a member of the Football Championship Subdivision, will be out to snap a four-game losing streak.
The Auburn women’s golf team shot 9-over 293 to conclude the UA-Ann Rhoads Intercollegiate in second place, improving three spots from Saturday. Freshman Cydney Clanton turned in her third top-five finish of the season as she tied for fourth.
With a five-game Southeastern Conference run behind them, the Auburn football team returned to the practice fields Sunday in preparations for a non-conference game against Tennessee Tech. The Tigers went 4-1 over the last five contests against SEC opponents, including a 17-3 win over Ole Miss at Jordan-Hare Stadium on Saturday evening.
After losing the first game of the match, the Auburn volleyball team (11-14, 3-11 SEC) rallied back to pick up wins in the next three games for a 3-1 (22-30, 30-25, 30-24, 31-29) win over Tennessee (9-13, 4-10 SEC) on Sunday.
Brandon Cox threw a 34-yard scoring pass to Rod Smith in the final minutes and Brad Lester rushed for a career-high 96 yards, helping No. 23 Auburn hold on for a 17-3 win.
The Auburn men’s and women’s teams each took sixth place at the SEC Cross Country Championships in Lexington hosted by the University of Kentucky. The Tigers also had two runners selected to the All-SEC teams.
Kylee Rossi’s goal in the 38th minute was the first of two for the Tennessee forward as Auburn fell in Knoxville, 3-0, on Sunday afternoon to fall to 9-7-1, 5-5-0 SEC.
Brandon Cox threw a 34-yard scoring pass to Rod Smith in the final minutes and Brad Lester rushed for a career-high 96 yards, helping No. 23 Auburn hold on for a 17-3 victory over Mississippi on Saturday and avoid another down-to-the-wire finish
The Auburn men’s and women’s teams each took sixth place at the SEC Cross Country Championships in Lexington hosted by the University of Kentucky. The Tigers also had two runners selected to the All-SEC teams.
Seniors Rachel Shanks and Whitney Jacob combined for 31 kills, but could not overcome a Kentucky offense that hit .312 as the Tigers fell 3-1 on Friday.
Live online streaming video of Saturday’s football game against Ole Miss (5 p.m. CT) will be available to monthly and annual subscribers of Auburn All-Access residing within the states of Alabama and Mississippi. The online broadcast will be blacked out in all other states and countries.
Former Auburn football player D. Gaines Lanier will be presented the 2007 Walter Gilbert Award at halftime of the Tigers’ game against Ole Miss at Jordan-Hare Stadium Saturday.
Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a state university located in Auburn, Alabama, USA. With more than 23,000 students and 1,200 faculty, it is the largest university in the state, and according to U.S. News & World Report, has a selectivity rating of "more selective." Auburn was chartered on February 1, 1856, as the East Alabama Male College, a private liberal arts school affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The college was donated to the state of Alabama in 1872, when it became the state's public land-grant university under the Morrill Act and was renamed the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. In 1892, the college became the first four-year coeducational school in the state. The college was renamed the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (API) in 1899. In 1960, its name was officially changed to Auburn University, as it had long been popularly known. Auburn is one of only 13 American universities designated as a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research center.
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